The beginning of April brought us the announcement of the new GeForce4 family. It included not only the top Ti 4400/4600 models, but also mainstream MX 420/440/460. The latter cards were not the pared-down GeForce4 Ti, but a kind of a hybrid of GeForce2 and GeForce4. The new MX cards lost not only the the half of pixel pipelines (2 of 4), but also the pixel shaders block, 3-level anisotropy, and EMBM support. This "castration" resulted in a cheap chip to easily compete not only with previous GeForce2 products, but also with ATI RADEON 7500 cards. These cards still have the GeForce4 core, including the faster memory controller, thus they demonstrate higher speed than their analogs released a year and a half ago. While the idea of MX440 was clear, the idea of MX460 was hardly explainable. But now junior Ti 4200 will press MX460, so its price is to drop below $120, and users will be able to get a solution faster than Ti200, though lacking some of its functions. But the wave of GeForce4 Ti washed away GeForce3 from the market, and GeForce4 MX haven't become any cheaper, risking to lose the demand after new releases from ATI and SIS.

On the 10th of August 2002 the latest drivers from NVIDIA are 29.90, 30.00, 30.82 for Windows XP.

Overclocks to 340/700 MHz.

Test results are in the summary diagrams.

You can compare screenshots with reference ones (NVIDIA GeForce3).

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Game list:

1. Return to Castle Wolfenstein

2. Unreal2 - for GeForce cards, Unreal - for all other

3. Comanche4

4. Jedi Knight II Outcast

5. Morrowind

6. Colin McRAE Rally2

7. Red Faction

8. Rally Trophy

9. Sacrifice

10. Venom

11. Unreal Tournament 2003 DEMO

12. Real MYST

13. Blade of Darkness

14. Neverwinter Nights

15. 3DMark2001: Game1

16. 3DMark2001: Game2

17. 3DMark2001: Game3

18. 3DMark2001: Game4

19. 3DMark2001: Dot3

20. 3DMark2001: EMBM

21. 3DMark2001: Vertex Shaders

22. 3DMark2001: Pixel Shaders

23. Warcraft III

24. Soldier of Fortune II

25. Command and Conquer: Renegade

26. Max Payne

27. AquaNox

28. Serious Sam: The Second Encounter

29. IL2: Shturmovik

30. MoHAA

And 6.* drivers are not compatible with the software for sound cards based on Yamaha processor, as well as with SoftXG100 software synthesizer. Start or Close Window buttons might be spoiled by some "garbage" in 2D mode. One solution is in the iXBT forum .